Publications

Recent publications

Integration, Islamophobia and civil rights in Europe
A new report from the IRR finds that, contrary to public perception, the challenge to multiculturalism in Europe comes not from Muslim communities' unwillingness to integrate but from Islamophobia.
8 May 2008 (62 words)

Race & Class, April 2008
The April 2008 edition of the journal Race & Class leads with Felipe Arocena's analysis of multiculturalism in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru, and features two studies of being black in Australia: one by David McNeill on Australian football and the other by Val Colic-Peisker and Farida Tilbury.
17 April 2008 (231 words)

Race & Class, January 2008
The January 2008 edition of the journal Race & Class leads with Joy Wang's analysis of Thabo Mbeki's AIDS denialism, features Jeremy Seabrook's examination of the psychic costs of industrialism's relentless march and includes studies of racial conflict in Malaysia, liberal imperialism in Egypt and the 'integration' discourse in France.
17 January 2008 (622 words)

European Race Bulletin - issue no. 61
Issue no. 61 of the European Race Bulletin contains an in-depth report on the election material of the extreme-Right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and country round-ups on anti-terrorism and human rights.
25 October 2007 (43 words)

New report criticises age-assessment procedures for asylum-seeking children
Every year, thousands of individuals who arrive in the UK and claim asylum as separated children are age disputed and treated as adults. A new report, released by the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association, examines the reasons why age is disputed, current policy and procedures for the assessment of age by local authorities, and the implications of age disputes for separated children seeking asylum in the UK.
18 October 2007 (397 words)

Caribbean Trajectories: 200 years on
Surveying the contemporary Caribbean - economically, politically and culturally - this special edition of the journal Race & Class argues that slavery and colonialism have left the region in the hands of narrow elites, which consider large sections of their own populations to be 'disposable'.
1 October 2007 (694 words)

European Race Bulletin - Election special
Issue no. 60 of the European Race Bulletin provides in depth articles on the recent elections in France and the Netherlands and country summaries covering other recent elections in Europe.
19 July 2007 (51 words)

The End of Tolerance: racism in 21st century Britain
Is Britain becoming a more racist society? Arun Kundnani looks behind the media hysteria to show how multicultural Britain is under attack by government policies and vitriolic press campaigns that play upon fear and encourage racism.
1 June 2007

Race & Class, July 2007
The July 2007 edition of the journal Race & Class leads with Jerry Harris' new analysis of the revolutionary movements in Bolivia and Venezuela, features Amrit Wilson's examination of the forced marriage debate in Britain and includes studies of indigenous knowledge, the Pan Africanist T E S Scholes and the plight of prisoners in Hurricane Katrina.
1 July 2007 (527 words)

UK: racism and the state 2007
In this special edition of Race & Class, leading black and anti-racist activists, campaigners and scholars chart the new parameters of state racism in the UK today.
4 April 2007 (459 words)

IRR journals

Race & Class

Race & Class is the IRR's quarterly journal on racism, empire and globalisation. For more than three decades, it has established a reputation for the breadth of its analysis, its global outlook and its multidisciplinary approach.
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European Race Bulletin

The European Race Bulletin is the only comprehensive digest of Europe's changing climate of racism, with reports on asylum and immigration policy, the challenge to multiculturalism and the erosion of civil liberties.
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Free Downloads

Driven to desperate measures
A roll call of the 221 asylum seekers and migrants who have died either in the UK or attempting to reach the UK in the past seventeen years. Available as a free download.
21 September 2006

The following briefing papers are available as free pdf downloads:

• Working with the media (192kb)
• In defence of multiculturalism (72kb)
• Community responses to the 'war on terror' (88kb)
• Asylum deaths; what to do next (232kb)

IRR educational resources

HomeBeats: struggles for racial justice
A multimedia journey through time from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to the making of modern Britain.

Roots and patterns: educational resources
A series of four educational booklets covering the historical roots of racism and the fight against it.

Racism in Britain
A simply-written 8-page broadsheet with facts, figures and analysis of contemporary racism.

By A. Sivanandan

A Different Hunger: writings on black resistance
A seminal collection of essays on racism and black resistance from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.

Communities of Resistance: writings on black struggles for socialism
Powerful interventions on issues which confronted radical politics in the 1980s.

From Resistance to Rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain
The hitherto unrecorded history of black people in Britain since the Second World War.

When Memory Dies
A three-generational novel of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and riven by ethnic wars.

Where the dance is
A wonderfully varied collection of short stories, which both move and delight, revealing as much about us as about themselves.

Other publications

Newham: the forging of a black community
Situates the growth of Newham's working-class black community in the context of industrial development and decline around London's docks.

Southall: the birth of a black community
How a whole community took to the streets to protest at the invasion of its town by the fascists.

Towards an anti-racist feminism
A pamphlet looking at the parallels between racism and women's oppression and the struggles within feminism to overcome its own racism.

Homelands of the Mind: Jewish feminism and identity politics
How do we hold on to both a Jewish and a feminist identity?

Community care: the black experience
The first study to ask black groups for their experiences and opinions on community care.